Guta Strykowski collection

Identifier
irn518598
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.430
Dates
1 Jan 1966 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518598

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Ester Kaplan donated her mother's evaluation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Nov. 28, 2006.

Scope and Content

Contains a copy of one report, 15 pages, written by Dr. Peter Ostwald, a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on January 18, 1966, to Mr. Klaus Hoefel, a consular officer at the Federal Republic of Germany consulate in San Francisco, regarding the mental health of Mrs. Guta Strykowski (later Cohen, born Weintraub), originally of Vlostrova, Poland. Dr. Ostwald describes Mrs. Strykowski's wartime experiences and relates that she is currently experiencing nightmares, depression, and pain as a result of her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

Genre

  • Document
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